We're Calling It Now: This Food Mash-Up is the New Cronut

Cue the #foodporn.

When you cross a brioche, a croissant, and a donut, you get the brioche feuilletée—a difficult-to-pronouce, but definitely delicious pastry that's predicted to be the the next big baked treat. To make Instagramming (and hashtagging) photos of the trendy new treat easier, the food blogging world deemed it worthy of a new name. Enter, the bronut.

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It resembles the shape of a meringue and the construction of a croissant, but Business Insider says it tastes like "a cross between a brioche, croissant, and donut." Basically, it's made of light, melt-in-your-mouth layers of rich butter and brioche, with sugar sprinkled on top.

Based on the cronut's success, it really shouldn't surprise you that the latest food hybrid is selling out. Which explains why Patrick Evans, the MarieBette Cafe owner who created it, decided nixing it from the menu after a week like he originally planned wasn't the smartest idea (duh).

For now, the pastry is only selling at the quaint Virigina Bakery, but we're hoping for a national movement of bronuts to happen soon. In the meantime, be a doll and send us a box, mmk?

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